FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

iOS. the only operating system where many games accidentally remove the leading slash from absolute paths and still work.

I have lost weeks of my life to trying to debug this and crashes related to it.

if I don't do this, the apps use what would be valid absolute paths, but which have a missing leading slash. which surely indicates a bug somewhere. how could this possibly work on the real OS. surely—

…

oh.

screams

why does touchHLE's app support improve when I return relative rather than absolute paths for the document directory and app bundle. why do apps seemingly rely on this. surely Foundation/CoreFoundation don't actually do this? I can't reproduce it on a real device. surely…

we have to imagine that all mountain goats songs are about goats

C++: homophobic
Java: homophobic
Fortran: homophobic
Ruby: bi
Python: homophobic
Perl: gay
Haskell: gay
Every ML: gay
Scala: homophobic (@palvaro : "Maybe the *most* homophobic")
Lisp: gayyyyyyy
Prolog: gay
Erlang: mind your own business
SQL: homophobic
XML: homophobic
XSLT: trans as hell (that's what the T stands for)
Forth: UNKNOWN???
Mathematica might be gay but the Wolfram language is homophobic
R: homophobic
CSS: gay
JS: homophobic
YAML: homophobic
JSON: gray ace
TLA+:

“A note to young folks: download the things you love”

https://birchtree.me/blog/a-note-to-young-folks-download-the-videos-you-love/

I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened

Today in “things dreamed up by the utterly deranged”:
API versioning inspired by let’s encrypt

nobody tell this person about floating point and NaNs

posting is the act of expressing unfiltered intrusive thoughts at all costs

My fiancé left his desk like this before going to work 🦊

Evil wizard: “I’ve just turned you into a hideous monster!”

Me, trying to hide my euphoria: “Oh, no!”

Evil wizard: “And it’s permanent!”

Me: “Oh, woe is me!”

Evil wizard: “Why the hell is your tail wagging?!”

Me: “Fuck.”

I am stepping back from the #Tusky project with immediate effect.

I discovered severe lapses in how the Tusky project's donations (received via #OpenCollective) were being handled. When I reported those to the project's private "Tusky Contributors" Matrix channel the financial admins tone policed the feedback, refused to engage with the concerns I and others raised, and demanded the discussion be stopped.

There is too much detail for a thread, so please read https://write.as/nikclayton/stepping-back-from-the-tusky-project.

young developer: "Wow, how did you get these results? Did you use a traditional db or a vector db?"

me: "lol I used perl & sort on a 42MB text file. it took 1.2 seconds on an old macbook"

Does anyone else get the feeling that #Godot has some similarities with #Flash ? Namely how objects can contain others of their own kind, they can only have one script attached to them and how created objects can be instanced or left in the scene?